The new CEO of Calgary Co-op is looking to take the locally owned retail co-operative “beyond the curry bar.”

Ken Keelor — the former Sobeys executive who took over the top job at Co-op in early November — is on the hunt for the next cutting edge improvement to follow on the heels of a major redevelopment project launched by Co-op in 2012. 608 more words

Last year, in an effort to convince a major Canadian grocer to move away from some of the most cruel methods of raising animals, Calgary Co-op member Clint Robertson brought forward a motion that read: “That Calgary Co-op phase out the sale of eggs and pork sourced from intensive confinement cages (sow / gestation stalls & battery cages) within the next three years, since this type of intensive confinement has been widely viewed as inhumane, and that in the interim Calgary Co-op work with suppliers to find alternatives not sourced from these types of intensive confinement cages.” 350 more words